Smoking device



Oct. 23, 1945. R. c. zucKg-:RMAN

SMOKING DEVICE Filed Jan. 17, i944 .lNVENToR R. C. @ckerman Patented Oce'zs, 1945 `Thisinvention relates to holders for cigars or cigarettes, or as the stem for a pipe, though for convenience thedevice will hereinafter be referred to generally as a holder.

'Ihe principal object is to provide a device of this character so constructed that the smoke must travel a relatively long path through the holder so that by the time it reaches the mouth of a smoker the smoke is in a very cool condition. Such long path necessitates the use of a nonstraight or tortuous passage through the holder, and another object is to construct the holder so that it may be readily taken apart and said passage easily cleaned out when necessary.

A further object is to construct the holder so that the cooling action on the smoke is increased, in addition to the cooling action provided by the tortuous passage.

A further object is to construct the holder of the transparent material so that the movement `and whirling action of the smoke through the holder will be visible to the onlooker.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device, and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

` These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following `specification and claims.

In the drawing similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

` stem.

Figure '7 is a fragmentary elevation showing the holder arranged to support a cigar.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawing, the holder comprises a pair of matching semi-cylindrical elongated members I and 2 having ilat faces 3 throughout their extent in their diametral plane adapted to flatly engage each other when the members are assembled; said members together forming the stem on the holder.

STATES: PATENTTO ,f v 2,387,381 l SMOKING DEVICE RoscoegCfZuckcrman, Stockton, Calif,.i Application January 17, 1944, seriiNoQ51af198 "f' l l 1 claim. (ci. 1x1- 199) At their opposite ends the members are reduced in diameter somewhat for a short distance, as at 4 and 5, to provide for frictional holding engagement with coupling sleeves 6 and I which are formed on the corresponding ends of a cigarette holding socket 8 and mouth-piece 9, respectively; the sleeve 6 being particularly of fire resistant material.

The portions 4 and 5 of the stem are provided with straight bores I Il, but between said bores the stem is formed with a tortuous smoke passage communicating with said bores and arranged as followsz Formed in each member from end to end and in matching relation in the two members is a series of closely transparent semi-circular recessesl I I, cut in from the faces 3, and when said members are assembled Vproviding full-circle smoke compartments or chambers separated by transverse Walls I2. The alternate walls I2 are provided with openings or ports I3 cut in from the surface 3 at one side, while the intermediate walls are provided with similarly disposed openings or ports I4 on the opposite side. The endmost smoke chambers communicate freely with the end bores I0.

By this arrangement and when the members I and 2 are assembled, the bores I0, chambers II, and ports I3 and I4 form a continuous but tortuous or zig-zag passage through which the smoke must travel between the cigarette C and the mouthpiece 9, which passage is many times longer than the stem. 'I'he smoke thus has ample time to become very cool before it reaches the mouthpiece, this cooling being aided by the formation of heat radiating ribs I5 about the exterior of the stem.

The stem is preferably made ofl transparent material, such as Lucite, which not only presents an attractive appearance, but enables the passage of the smoke along the internal tortuous passage to be readily seen, the stem being formed of readily separable parts (by merely clipping oi the coupling sleeves B and l). The opposed portions of the chambers II and communicating ports are then exposed and may be easily cleaned out when necessary, as will be obvious.

In order to locate the members I and 2 against displacement when assembled, one member is provided with dowels I6 projecting from the corresponding wall 3, while the other member is provided with cooperating sockets or depressions I'I.

The dowels may be adjacent the ends of the members, as shown, as well as at other points, or they may be more or less continuous if desired, and

as may be found best.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fullls the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

Having thus described my invention, what I"y claim as new and useful and desire to secureV by l Letters Patent is:

` A smoking device which includes av stem, suchV stem comprising a tubular element separable lon-v gitudinally into two substantially duplicate separable halves, each half comprising a one piece member having a flat face, each piece having a series of substantially equally spaced grooves eX- tending inwardly from such face thus providing a series of equally spaced Walls Abetween the grooves, alternate walls being provided with relatively small ports connecting adjacent grooves at lone side of theA piece and the intermediate walls being provided'with like ports at the opposite side of the piece, the pieces being adapted to be placed in' face to face relation with the grooves and ports of one in register with those of the other, Whereby there is` formed a continuous tortuous smoke passage through the stem, a mouth piece on one end of the stem, and a tobacco containing element on the other end thereof. 

